To file in the department of ‘Can this possibly be true?’ – a piece from the New York Times about Wall Street’s fascination with curling. That’s right, curling, the mesmerically boring sport which is basically bowling on ice with heavy flat stones. After the closing bell in the markets, CNBC switches to showing the curling from Vancouver. Apparently the chilled-out boringness is why the moneymen like it. The guys on the Street say it is ‘like chess on ice’.

It’s not bowling on ice, it’s bowls on ice. Bowling is a quick hit, an instant win or lose with no judgment required. Bowls (like curling) is slow and careful, with results that only reveal themselves gradually. What do they know of bowls who only bowling know?

Jeeze, you guys know nothing.
Curling is the only sport in which men and women could compete on a level paying field: Size, strength and speed don’t matter here.
We know how Wall St. loves a level playing field.